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English bricks - page 4b-5

Burkitt to Burslem

W Burkitt

W. Burkitt worked for Fred Jewson at Fred's brickworks in Haddenham, Cambs. before setting up on his own at a location which is unknown. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.

Burley Gate

The 'Gate' trademark, barely discernible within the frog, identifies this as a product of the Burley Gate brickworks, some ten miles from Bromyard in deepest North East Herefordshire. The works was started in the 1870s by William Cale and continued to function probably until the outbreak of World War ll, as the kiln was sold as building salvage in 1940. Photo and info by Richard Paterson.

Burmantofts, Leeds

also see the entry for Leeds Fireclay Co.

A member of the Leeds Fireclay Company. Image PRBCO.

The front and rear of a Burmantofts brick by Martyn Fretwell

J Burn, Choppington

In 1871 John Burn was a brick manufacturer employing 6 men and 4 women living at German House adjacent to Choppington Station, Northumberland. The brickworks was just to the west of his residence. Photos by Chris Tilney.

Photo by Steven Tait.

Burnaxe: see Burn Fireclay Company

Burn Fireclay Co.

Burn Fireclay Co. Stobswood, Northumberland, open from 1860 to mid 1990's. Burnaxe, Furnaxe, Superaxe and Meltaxe were also made here. An axe was the company trade mark.

Photo by David Kitching.

Photo by Tony Gray.

Thanks to George Simpson for the photo.

Photo by Martyn Fretwell

Photo by Chris Tilney.

Photos by Frank Lawson.

Photo by Phil Burgoyne.

Found in the Tweed estuary by Andrew Stewart. Photo by Edith Stewart.

Photos by Anne Jeffcoat.

Photo by Tony Gray.

Photos by Mark Cranston.

Photos by Paul Hampson.

Found at Rosyth by Andrew Wood.

J Burnes

Found in the Irish Republic but thought to be from the United Kingdom. Photo by Robert Reynolds.

Burnley B & L

The Burnley Brick & Lime Company Ltd., Reedley Hallows, Burnley ( Kelly 1901 ) and
Hesandford works, Burnley & Altham ( Kelly 1918 ). Photo by Jason Stott.

Burscough Brick & Tile Co

The Burscough Brick & Tile Co. (Thorougoods) operated from about
1900 to the 1960’s. Photo and info by Peter Lea.

Bursledon Brick Co.

This company was owned by two Quaker families, the Hooper's and the Ashby's and as well as being in business together they were also united by marriage. The Company was started by Edward Hooper in Southampton and he is recorded in the 1851 census as an engineer/brickmaker, trading in slate, white bricks and cement at Baltic Wharf, Chapel Road, Southampton. Other members of both families joined this expanding company which traded as Hooper and Ashby and in 1864 Edward's brother Charles purchased the White Brickworks at Exbury. By the 1881 census the company now under the control of Edmund Ashby traded as builders merchants, brickmakers and barge owners, employing 90 men and 25 boys. Around 1893 the company of Hooper and Ashby was then split into two with Morris Ashby and Robert Beck (Edward Hooper's son in law) running the builder's merchants and with Edmund and Robert Ashby running the brick and cement works which now traded as Hooper and Co. at Chandlers Ford. With clay reserves running low at Chandler's Ford Edmund and Robert Ashby then opened a new brickworks at Lower Swanwick near Bursledon around 1896/7. This new works first traded as Hooper and Co. with the name then being changed to the Bursledon Brick Co. in 1903 and their bricks were stamped with their distinct logo of B.B.Co. The Ashby family continued to run the Bursledon brickworks until it was taken over just after the Second World War by the Sussex & Dorking Brick Company, who in turn were taken over by Redland. The Bursledon works continued under Redland until it's closure in 1974. Info and bricks photographed at the Bursledon Brickworks Museum by Martyn Fretwell. More info: http://www.bursledonbrickworks.org.uk

Burslem: See Sneyd

A & T Burslem, Stockport

This brick is believed to have been made by Alexander & Thomas Burslem, sons of Alexander Burslem, who in 1881 was a brickmaker and farmer of 15 acres living on Adswood Lane, Stockport. In 1891 he was living at 1 Councillor Lane & was described as a Master Brickmaker. He is then recorded in Kelly's Cheshire 1896 edition at Adswood, Stockport. After his death in 1901, his wife is recorded in Kelly's 1902 edition as brickmaker and employer at Adswood, with his son Alexander as the manager of the works and Thomas as brickmaker. By 1906 the business had closed and in 1911 the two sons were both working as Carriers, with Thomas noted as carrying bricks, presumably from one or more of the other local brickyards. Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the John Cooksey Collection. Info by David Kitching.